Improvement in driers



R. KIDD.

Improvement in Dr-ers.

Patented July 23,1872.

` UNITED NSfrIrrEs y -SrEcIFIcArIoN` To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD KIDD, of the town of Montezuma, in the county ofParke and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inV Flour and Meal Driers; and I do hereby declare that the folloivingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. x

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a machine for drying meal by steam, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. j

In order to enablel others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I' 4will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which is represented a longitudinal section of my iour and meal drier.

A represents a cylinder of any suitable dimensions, placed in an inclined position, as shown, and provided with an interior revolvin gcylinder, B, through which the meal passes, and is revolved or turned by the rotation of the said interior cylinder. The steam enters the outer or stationary cylinder at C and passes between the two cylindersthat is, around the interior or revolving cylinder B-and escapes at E. The interior cylinder B is provided with hollow journals D and D', passing through the `heads of the ex-terior cylinder A. The meal passes in by a suitably-arran ged spout through the journal D into the cylinder` B, and out through the other journal D. The latter journalis upon the head of the cylinder which is lowest, the entire machine being inclined, as above mentioned, and `on the inside of this head is a `device for discharging the 'meaL This device consists of a circular plate, c, of somewhat `larger diameter than .that of the PATENT OFFICE.

" RICHARD Kinn, oF MONTEZUMA, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,736, dated July 23, 1872.

charges itself from the revolving cylinder B.

The cylinder Bis driven by a pulley, Gr, on one of the hollow journals. In the construction of the machine the parts and joints should be made steam-tight, and the journals provided with stufling-boxes.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The rdevice for discharging the meal, consisting of the disk a, buckets b b, and the pyramid d having concave sides, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

` 2. The combination of 4the inclined stationary cylinder A and the interior revolving cylinder B, turning upon hollowjournals D D',

and forming a steam-space between it and the exterior cylinder, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

3. The combination of the cylinders A and. u

B, hollow journals D D, disk a, buckets bb,

`and pyramid d, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD KIDD. Witnesses:

THOMAS GLEAsoN, J osEPH BUEGHEE. 

